Management

This page includes content on healthcare management, including health system, hospital, department and clinic business management and administration. Areas of focus are on cardiology and radiology department business administration. Subcategories covered in this section include healthcare economics, reimbursement, leadership, mergers and acquisitions, policy and regulations, practice management, quality, staffing, and supply chain.

Fonar secures second Upright contract with imaging center

The Center for Diagnostic Imaging of Minneapolis has purchased asecond Fonar Upright Multi-Position MRI, in partnership with theNorthwestern College of Chiropractic.

Carestream Health fills nine CR and DR orders

Carestream Health has signed contracts for its Kodak Directview CR anddigital radiography systems from nine U.S. healthcare facilities.

Asteral nets $275M, long-term contract for British health system

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has signed Asteral for a$274.9 million (£140 million), 18.9-year managed equipment service contract.

Imagineradiology to provide services to Seattle practice

Via Radiology of Seattle, has chosen Imagineradiology, an Imagine Software company, as its new practice management system.

Brooklyn HIE chooses MedPlus for clinical portal

MedPlus, the healthcare IT subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics, has beenawarded a contract to implement a clinical portal and informationexchange for the Brooklyn Health Information Exchange (HIE).

Wayport helps Pennsylvania hospital go wireless

The Washington Hospital in Washington, Pa., will install Wayport’s wireless public internet service.

Swiss Institute chooses Zecotek for PET medical imaging program

Paul Scherrer Institute of Villigen, Switzerland, has selectedZecotek's proprietary micro-pixel avalanche photo diodes fortrials in its PET medical imaging program.

New York healthcare system chooses Exogen

North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System has chosen Exogen, abusiness solutions company and wholly owned subsidiary of TechnologySolutions Company, to manage the data migration and consolidation ofmedical image data from its systems to its enterprise medical imagestorage system.

Around the web

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.

Deepak Bhatt, MD, director of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital and principal investigator of the TRANSFORM trial, explains an emerging technique for cardiac screening: combining coronary CT angiography with artificial intelligence for plaque analysis to create an approach similar to mammography.

A total of 16 cardiology practices from 12 states settled with the DOJ to resolve allegations they overbilled Medicare for imaging agents used to diagnose cardiovascular disease.